Session 6: Bottom Up Betas

In this session, I examine the fundamentals that determine betas, and how using industry averages and correcting for differences in leverage can yield better estimates of betas not only for companies, but their business segments.
Slides: https://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/p...

(This is a blast from the past, since these are recordings of a corporate finance class that I taught in the Stern Trium MBA program in January 2016. That said, corporate finance first principles don't magically change over time, and while nothing is timeless, the lessons hold up. The class was a three-day class, with twelve recordings of about an hour and a half each. You can get the entire playlist by going here:
   • Corporate Finance Executive Class (Ja...  
The webpage for the class, with links to additional material is here:
https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar...
The lecture notes for the class are at this link:
https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar...)